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The article implies that you have to buy kosher or fancy gourmet salt if you don't want iodine. That seems weird, every supermarket I can think of has "regular
by vba616 4y ago
The article implies that you have to buy kosher or fancy gourmet salt if you don't want iodine.
That seems weird, every supermarket I can think of has "regular" plain old Morton salt in clearly labeled non-iodized canisters alongside iodized stuff.
Also, as a chemical-phobe, why would I want Himalayan or sea salt with literally a million times more chemicals?
- mplanchard 4y agoIt’s true, regular non-iodized salt also seems generally preferable to me if the goal is to avoid potentially harmful chemical byproducts. I never looked into how they make sea salt, but without some kind of purification it’s going to have lots of stuff in it. And of course what gives Himalayan salt its color is impurities. I guess whether one should be concerned just depends on which impurities!
- vba616 4y agoMy impression is that the cheap stuff comes from mines, which are dried up ancient oceans. Ancient oceans...that weren't full of humanity's toxic waste... I'm not saying mined salt is healthy before it's purified, I have no idea. It's just that superficially, I don't get why the "healthy" choice is obviously the kind with microplastics and Fukushima goodness and a million other things nobody's catalogued that can't be in the mined stuff. But it's not romantic to get your table salt from the Detroit salt mine, which is probably why they produce salt for road de-icing these days.